This means that the time for a misdemeanour proceeding falls from the current
30-40 minutes to 20 minutes when video evidence is used, enabling to save an
estimated 70,000 work hours a year.

"One picture tells more than a thousand words, as we know. In addition to
reducing the time needed, using video evidence rules out possible human error
and raises the quality of misdemeanour proceedings considerably," said interior
minister Ken-Marti Vaher.

The law still has to be promulgated by the president; the traffic police
starts using video evidence from August.